[nlug] Political messages

2018-06-26 Thread John F. Eldredge
Political messages are off-topic for this group. As one of the moderators, I attempted to delete that pending message, but some other moderator apparently approved it as I was in the process of blocking it. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG"

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-06-26 Thread andrew mcelroy
Additionally, the author of that off topic email has been banned from this mailing list. Calling that email merely 'political spam' is charitable and will not be tolerated. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:07 PM John F. Eldredge wrote: > Political messages are off-topic for this group. As one of the m

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-06-26 Thread Michael L
I'm curious, was this a mailing list "subscriber" or someone who was able to email NLUG by hacking means? On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 21:31 andrew mcelroy wrote: > Additionally, the author of that off topic email has been banned from this > mailing list. > Calling that email merely 'political spam' i

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-06-26 Thread andrew mcelroy
I deleted the garbage message and banned the offender in question. My guess is that somehow the google groups platform is allowing a message to pass through after a certain amount of time. I did a quick check to see who all is a manager or owner and I recognized every single email address. I'll pa

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-06-26 Thread Dave Tomlin
Thanks gents! I get bombarded with enough political commentary elsewhere and definitely do not want to see it here! On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:22 PM Michael L wrote: > I'm curious, was this a mailing list "subscriber" or someone who was able > to email NLUG by hacking means? > > > On Tue, Jun 26

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-06-26 Thread Csaba Toth
Thanks Andrew! On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 8:26 PM andrew mcelroy wrote: > I deleted the garbage message and banned the offender in question. My > guess is that somehow the google groups platform is allowing a message to > pass through after a certain amount of time. > > I did a quick check to see who

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-06-27 Thread JMJ
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 10:26 PM andrew mcelroy wrote: > > > I did a quick check to see who all is a manager or owner and I recognized > every single email address. I'll pass it off as a stupid person does stupid > thing this time, but if it happens again, I'll dig more into how approvals > exactly

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-07-04 Thread Perkins, Jerry
On 06/26/2018 10:22 PM, Michael L wrote: I'm curious, was this a mailing list "subscriber" or someone who was able to email NLUG by hacking means? I am answering with knowledge of how Mailman works, but not google. Anyone can send a post. But if that person is not a subscriber th

Re: [nlug] Political messages

2018-07-13 Thread John F. Eldredge
As a moderator, I received a notification that the message in question was waiting for a moderator to approve or block it, but by the time I logged into Google Groups, someone had apparently already approved the message. On July 4, 2018 5:34:02 PM "Perkins, Jerry" wrote: On 06/26/2018 10:22 P